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<h3 align="center"> CCSM4.0 </h3>
<h2 align="center"> CICE 4.0 Documentation </h2>
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<h3> Introduction </h3>
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The Los Alamos Sea Ice Model, CICE 4.0, was released in as part of 
the CCSM4.0 release.

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<h3> Documentation </h3>
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<li>User Documents 
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      <li> User's Guide &nbsp;
         <a href="UsersGuide/ice_usrdoc/index.html">html</a> &nbsp;
         <a href="UsersGuide/ice_usrdoc.pdf">pdf</a> 
      <li> Source Code Reference &nbsp;
         <a href="RefGuide/ice_refdoc/index.html">html</a> &nbsp;
         <a href="RefGuide/ice_refdoc.pdf">pdf</a> 
      <li> Scientific Description  &nbsp;
         <a href="SciGuide/ice_scidoc.pdf">pdf</a> 
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<h3> What is CICE4? </h3>
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CICE4 is the latest version of the NCAR Community Ice CodE based on the Los
Alamos Sea Ice Model.  It is the
result of a community effort to develop a portable, efficient sea ice model
that can be run coupled in a global climate model or uncoupled as a stand-alone
ice model. CICE4 is supported on high- and low-resolution Greenland Pole
and tripole grids, which are identical to those used by the Parallel Ocean Program (POP) ocean model. <BR> <BR>

An uncoupled version of CICE4 is available through the 
<a href="http://oceans11.lanl.gov/trac/CICE">Los Alamos National
Laboratory</a>).  It provides a means of running
the sea ice model independent of the other CCSM components. The physics
in the uncoupled ice model are identical to those in the ice model used in
the fully coupled system.  CICE is a dynamic-thermodynamic model that
includes a subgrid-scale ice thickness distribution, energy conserving
thermodynamics, and elastic-viscous-plastic (EVP) dynamics.

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